Wolf Play
- Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
- 2M, 1F, 2M or F
- ISBN: 9780573709975
Wolf Play is a messy, funny, disturbing theatrical experience grappling with a wolf, a puppet and the very prickly problem of "What is a family, and what do we need from families today? Is it very different from what humans have needed from families before?"
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
- Accolades:
- Winner! Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play (2022)
Wolf Play is a messy, funny, disturbing theatrical experience grappling with a wolf, a puppet, and the very prickly problem of “What is a family, and what do we need from families today? Is it very different from what humans have needed from families before?”
REVIEWS:
"A deeply resonant work from one of the American theater’s most complex new voices."
Chicago Tribune
"Both moving and metaphorically adroit... among the many complications of the play, the doubling of adult actor and child puppet is one that absolutely works."
WBUR, Boston
"The play centers on the ways in which, increasingly in the modern world, we make our own families... the fight for equality for the LGBTQ community, the fight against masculine and clannish obtuseness, the fight of women to elbow their way into the male-dominated world of sports, the flaws of the legal system."
WBUR, Boston
"Great theatre... Jung is in a class of her own. She wields language like a poet. Her lyrical, precise script perfectly captures our best and worst natures. The play simultaneously celebrates our extraordinary capacity for love, exposes our nastiest inclinations toward selfishness, and admonishes the injustices of our social systems."
BroadwayWorld
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 1F, 2M or F
- Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Asian Actor(s)
- Casting Notes: Cast should be racially diverse. WOLF should be of East Asian descent.
ROBIN – Female, 30s. Ash’s wife.
RYAN – Male, Early to mid 30s. Robin’s brother.
PETER – Male, Late 30s. A father.
WOLF – A mix of the familiar with the terribly unexpected.
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A Korean boy is ushered into a new house by his adopted American father. This new house belongs to an American boxer and her wife. American father un-adopts boy by a single signature on a piece of paper. But just before he leaves the new house, ex-father discovers that the new parents, to whom he has "re-homed" his ex-son, are a lesbian couple. American ex-father spends the rest of the play trying to get the boy back. In his corner is Ryan, the boxer's coach and her wife's brother. Ryan doesn't like the new Korean boy, who is a bit weird. |
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